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A Play for Younger Ones
' The Travelling Musicians ' based upon the old story by ENID HILL with Norman Shelley , Bryan Powley , Dorothy Black , and Donovan Maule
BILL BAAR will conclude his thriller
' The Ghost Ship ', Part 2
There will also be some selected gramophone records

by Keith Falkner (baritone)
In Memoriam-Arthur Somervell
Songs from the ' Maud ' Cycle
Arthur Somervell, whose death occurred a few weeks ago at the age of seventy-four, was a pupil of Stanford at Cambridge, and later joined the teaching staff of the Royal College of Music. He was a fairly prolific composer, until he took up the teaching work that led to his appointment as Principal Inspector of Music to the Board of Education and Scottish Education Department.
His music is typically English in its economy and restraint and straightforward sincerity of feeling. It is probably by his songs that he will live, for his best qualities found their happiest expression in his settings of English poets, from Shakespeare to those of the nineteenth century. The song-cycle ' Maud ', a setting of lyrics from Tennyson's famous poem, is one of four similar cycles on English texts, the others being on Housman's ' A Shropshire Lad ', ' James Lee 's Wife ' (Browning), and ' Love in Springtime '. Of these, the ' Maud ' cycle, in the words of his biographer in ' Grove ',
' takes a place among the classics of English song for the complete unity of feeling existing between poetry and music '.

THE SOUTHERN SISTERS in Happy, Snappy Songs, with DAVID LAW at the piano
MAMIE SOUTTER the Modern Bunch of Mirth
Issy BONN the Hebrew Vocal Raconteur
AILEEN STANLEY
America's Girl Friend, singing Popular Songs
Gus CHEVALIER in The Violin Lesson
THE BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES SHADWELL

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